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SIR TERRY FROST - Spirals
Starting Bid: $1,500
Estimate:
$2,000 - $4,000
Ended
Timed Auction
Two Collections - A Collection of Contemporary NZ & Australian Art - A Collection of Modern British Prints & others
Size
55 x 68 cm
Description
Silkscreen print and collage on arches paper, edition 52/125
Medium
Silkscreen print and collage on arches paper, edition 52/125
Signature
Signed
Literature
Sir Terry Frost was born in Leamington Spa, England. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and a recognised figure of the British art establishment.
Frost believed that painting and printmaking were inseparable, and that each medium informed the other. Prints were therefore an essential element of his oeuvre, which encompassed etching, linocut, woodcut and drypoint etching, while bold colours and simplified geometric forms distinguished both his paintings and prints.
Frost held his first solo exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London in 1952.
Subsequent exhibitions included the Arts Council Touring Exhibition, 1976; and Waddington Galleries, London, 1961. He exhibited regularly in London, and in 1961 celebrated his first solo show abroad at the Bertha Schaeffer Gallery in New York. His group exhibitions include the 1980 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London; Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1995; 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Angela Flowers Gallery, London and Santa Monica, 2000. Frost’s work is held in the collections of the British Museum, Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the National Gallery of Canada and the National Gallery of New South Wales, Australia.
Frost believed that painting and printmaking were inseparable, and that each medium informed the other. Prints were therefore an essential element of his oeuvre, which encompassed etching, linocut, woodcut and drypoint etching, while bold colours and simplified geometric forms distinguished both his paintings and prints.
Frost held his first solo exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London in 1952.
Subsequent exhibitions included the Arts Council Touring Exhibition, 1976; and Waddington Galleries, London, 1961. He exhibited regularly in London, and in 1961 celebrated his first solo show abroad at the Bertha Schaeffer Gallery in New York. His group exhibitions include the 1980 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London; Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1995; 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Angela Flowers Gallery, London and Santa Monica, 2000. Frost’s work is held in the collections of the British Museum, Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the National Gallery of Canada and the National Gallery of New South Wales, Australia.
